Signals indicate Intel’s Woodcrest processor for Mac at upcoming WWDC

Do we have enough evidence to declare Woodcrest a definite show at August's …

In radio direction finding (DF), a radio signal's source must be identified by three different stations in order for that source's location to be considered "pegged." This is also known as triangulation.

It looks as if we now have two of the three IDs needed in order to peg not just the next Intel Mac announcement, but also which processor we can expect. Jacqui first reported back in March that this year's WWDC had been mysteriously pushed back to August, and now this:

Apple customers may be the first to enjoy Intel's new CPU goodies, with the Woodcrest family of processors making it into Macintosh workstations as early as the third quarter. Woodcrest systems will be symmetric multi processing (SMP), with dual processors with up to four cores each. One such machine was demonstrated at IDF, running benchmarks under Windows XP 64-bit edition, showing eight active cores.

So let's see... WWDC is in August, which is third quarter... and Mac users are slated for a Woodcrest-powered machine in third quarter... hmmmm...

Making a real leap here, I would hazard a guess that the MacTel Woodcrest equivalent of the ultramegarockin' Power Mac G5 will be Steved on us this August.

'Course, I still need that third location to check in and verify. I'll be over here at my radio station listening in if anyone needs me.